take a look here: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&q=IDE&btnG=Search
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.mind.ca/helpfiles/hwmbdint030/Connectors/IDE.gif&imgrefurl=https://www.mind.ca/helpfiles/hwmbdint030/Connectors/IDE_ports.htm&h=230&w=379&sz=43&tbnid=i-B-Hy4vEwjL2M:&tbnh=72&tbnw=119&hl=en&start=10&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIDE%2BATA%26svnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG any of that look familiar? it's important you know the difference between IDE, SCSI, and SATA because this will help you choose and configure the right drivers. digression: When setting up optical writing drives it's normal (in my experience) to need to setup the IDE drive using the scsi-ide kernel module, which causes and IDE drive to be accessed by software as if it were a SCSI drive. (they do it this way in order to avoid having to write user space software that knows both the IDE and SCSI protocols.) first, you have to figure out what you've got though. I'll assume you have IDE drives though, since this is almost certainly the case. for your edumacation: each IDE interface (each ribbon cable... and, in other words, each IDE plug on the motherboard) can have a max of two devices on it. One of these devices must be setup as a "master" and one must be a "slave". This configuration typically happens using jumpers, which are attached to the exterior of each drive. Take your drives out of your computer and take a look. Usually there is a diagram on the drive itself which describes how to position the jumpers in order to set the drive up as a master or slave. ("cable select" and something else are often other options, which you can safely ignore.) also, in the old days, once you changed anything with your IDE drive configuration, you needed to run the BIOS/CMOS setup (just before the OS boots) in order to let the BIOS know what's going on. BIOSes are generally smart enough these days though to know what's up without being told, so you can probably skip this step too. uhm. maybe this helps? try googling for ide-scsi, or whatever, and do whatever research and reading you can there. that should take you a long way. good luck. - Ben On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:51:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank you all for your replies. I really don't know an IDE from an ATA from > an EIEIO. I do know that there's one connector coming out from my > motherboard with ribbon cables going in both directions -- one direction goes > to the hard drive, the other to the optical drives in a master/slave > configuration (don't ask me which is which). > > The new DVD burner replaces a CD reader, so there are two optical drives in > place of two optical drives. I tried plugging them in one way and then the > other (swapping the connectors) and it won't work either way. > > The other optical drive is a lite-on LTR-16101B. > > Sometimes I think I have the Murphy's Law of computers. > > Can anyone help? > > Jennifer > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
